The Kids We Were was a hard game for me to get through. Not because of any tricky puzzles or skill demands—it’s a “walking sim”, at heart—but because of something far more challenging: its raw, unflinching honesty. It’s a game that deals with some heavy themes, handled with care but …
It feels like it’s been a long time coming, but we finally have a release date for The Good Life, and it’s less than a month away: Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro and White Owls’ “debt repayment RPG” launches October 15. Swery announced the release date for The Good Life during this …
Button City might just be the quintessential “wholesome game”. It’s got the low-poly graphics, the cute, anthropomorphised characters, and the hyper-saturated pastel colour scheme. It’s got a simple but moving story about making friends and finding a sense of belonging, told through an assortment of quirky loveable misfits, pop culture …
If you ask most people today what they like about adventure games, it’s almost always some echo of what Telltale brought to the genre: compelling characters, weighty themes, choice and consequence. Less so is it about the genre’s crunchier roots, from the likes of Monkey Island or King’s Quest to …
Armature Studio’s Where the Heart Leads is a dense narrative game, with an apparent 600,000 words of dialogue and tons of decisions to make throughout the game. That word count is neither a positive or negative, however: it gives players the chance to craft their own story, yet drags along …
Overnight, Square Enix shared a first look at Life is Strange: True Colors in action, teasing another dose of the series’ unique approach to the narrative adventure genre (with some new twists), and introducing some of the characters you’ll meet in Haven. The scene sees Alex—who’s just moved to a …
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is an interesting case in itself. The two games that form this collection saw their initial release on the Nintendo 3DS as Japanese exclusives. Now, six years since the release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, these historical prequels to the much beloved Phoenix Wright …
If you like Japanese mythology, stories of fickle gods, and pixel art, you’ll want to check out Rainbow Sea, a gorgeous, free adventure game for iOS and Android that’s now available in English. Created by Japanese indie developer Hinuko Shima (aka Shirokurohitsuji), Rainbow Sea tells the sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet …
I didn’t really go into Strangeland with any preconceived notions, other than a fondness for Wormwood Studios previous game, Primordia. It’d be a strange, surreal ride regardless, but coming in with no expectations, knowing nothing about it other than the title, and letting it just overwhelm the senses is Strangeland …
Few game developers have quite the mastery of psychological horror as Bloober Team. Layers of Fear 2, originally released for other platforms in 2019, and now making its way to Switch, is an especially potent case study in how the a surreal, eerie atmosphere and the fractured, tragic story of …
